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Posts Tagged ‘Internet Of Things’

As aPakistani-AmericanandUETLahoreElectrical Engineer, I know how many brilliant minds, even technical geniuses, were just in my own class of80-Electrical. So, I always think ofPakistanisas well as UET students or recent grads first when I have ideas where I may need to hire someone for sideprojectsor new ideas I want to develop into something more.

Sometimes I need to hire someone for a short project, sometimes longer. But I would also love to find one or more very capable electrical/electronics engineers I can use regularly, not fulltime, but part-time on different projects and ideas. Could that be You?

Ideally you would be great at designing and prototyping innovative new things in side projects for me. That takes more than just having a degree. (After all, even I have that. 😊). Here are some of the skills I would require.

You have great command ofEnglish, total ability to hear an idea and technical requirements, and design thehardware / prototype and / or write themiddleware / software orwebapps.By that I mean more than “Oh I can do responsive website and SEO for you!”

A full understanding ofintellectual property concepts and areas (includingpatent,trademark,copyright, andlicensing) is essential. I repeat: Knowing about what patents are, and what is needed to get one issued byUSPTOorPakistanPTO, is absolutely essential.

The following are skills specific to various projects that I do NOT expect any one person to have. So I may need different people for different projects related to:

Electrical/Electronics Engineering

–Wireless /Home Automationand integration to otherIoTsystems, including interface and middleware. Nothing massively complex, but being able to make seemingly unrelated things interface and communicate. (e.g. …this is just an EXAMPLE… if I wanted to have a doorbell ringing outside the house to trigger a dot matrix printer to print Hello World, then he or she would be able to make that happen. Again, this is an EXAMPLE, not an actual idea!)

–MobilePhone (iOSandAndroid) expertise to design accessories forApple/Samsung etc. devices with apps to use that accessory. (e.g. design an extra externalcameraaccessory forsmartphonesand software to capture data from the external and built-in device together). Only for EXAMPLE check out theFLIRInfraRedexternal camera for iPhones. (www.flir.com/flirone/ios-android/ )

–Androidopen source operating systemcustomization (e.g. and this is only an EXAMPLE…. to customize Android for anIMRAN-Phone that just changes the screen display based on location and temperature).

–Web Apps.notwebsites, development expertise. For EXAMPLE, think more about building FaceBook the SYSTEMnotjust offering to do FaceBook’s index.php page design.

– Patent Drawing EXPERIENCE of actually FILED patent(s), not just wasting my time by saying “I can draw plan, elevation, side view!” or that “I can do anything inSketchUp or other3D or illustration program.” You need to ACTUALLY KNOW and have experience of having MADE the very SPECIFIC types of PATENT DRAWINGS required by the USPTO. Please do NOT waste my time if you do not know what I am talking about specifically here. This person can be a NON-ENGINEER or non-Electrical engineer, or even a talented teenager.

If you already do this type of work through sites like Fiverr, etc. that would make life simpler. I will need you to sign NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and agreements to ensure that the intellectual property is protected and that you will neither re-use it nor use it yourself nor let anyone else have or use or copy from it. If interested, write in detail on what your areas of expertise are, what kind of time you are available, and rates. You may contact me via: http://imran.com/contactus.php but make sure to use an accurate and valid email address. To make sure your message is found and not lost in spam blockers, leave a comment below also to let me know. Let’s see what great projects we can do together!